Word: censor
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...essence, this is the argument against political correctness. Groups who seek to censor perceived obscenities on the grounds that they are not politically correct are actually hurting their cause by depriving society of the ability to better understand the truth. This pitfall loomed large on Tuesday, when the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and other student groups took action to stop the sale of the “Yale Sucks, Jeter Swallows” T-shirt sold by Satire...
...winning the election in Florida—even if it means stifling academic expression. As Domínguez succinctly put it: “The U.S. government has sent one clear message to the Cuban government in all of this: If you do not like what academics write, censor them...
...response to urging from U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft, thirty-two of the nation’s leading scientific journals—the primary forum for the exchange of vanguard research—announced last year their intention to self-censor, pledging to nix publications that could lead to a terrorist attack...
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt disagreed with the military's decision to censor newsreels because he was worried that the public might get apathetic. What the New York Times wrote then remains true today: "Government propaganda is conflicting, confused, and hydra-headed ... it pulls in opposite directions, often on the same...
...Sadr's fierce young lieutenants apply a puritanical Islamic creed when and where they can. They insist women go veiled, they bar Western music and dress, they censor films and close--or burn down--liquor stores. In Najaf they have set up an office for the "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Al-Sadr has authorized his followers to set up illegal courts and prisons in Baghdad and eight southern cities, where al-Sadr enemies have allegedly been tortured...